Ratt: C or D?

Damn straight. Metal Sludge has all the gory details, but you'll have to do some archive spelunking.

Anyway, "Lay it Down": classssssssssssssssic. So is "Round and Round". And maybe "Way Cool Junior", by a hair (yuk yuk yuk). Okay, maybe not. The rest is probably shit, admittedly.

Someone was just telling me about that Maiden tribute last night. (At my birthday party, BTW. I turned 23, which I think I forgot to advise ILx of. Perhaps auspiciously, it was a record 28 degrees, the warmest day of the year so far.) He said he'd lend it to me.

"Hi. I'm Jizzy Pearl. You might remember me from such bands as Love/Hate and L.A. Guns."

http://www.jizzypearl.com/images/main.jpg

Apparently they're touring with Pearcy this summer, first time since 2000 or something.

I watched their Behind the Music today. Their original bassist said that Pearcy rewrote lyrics (to at least one song, not the one Dave Q. mentions at the top of this thread) so that they didn't actually make sense, but to satisfy himself that he could "relate" to them.

"Nobody Rides for Free" is so underrated.

And funnily enough, the lyrics to it don't make sense, but Pearcy DOES seem to really relate to them. And I, in turn, end up relating to them a little as well.

Oh and name of song in my post was "Lack of Communication."

I liked them a lot, even though I was a college-radio DJ boy and fan of much of what went along with that. "Round and Round" was pretty undeniable. But then, I was alla time tryna get "Killed by Death" and "Word Up" added.

RATT fans don't miss appearances by Warren DeMartini, Bobby Blotzer and Robbie Crane at this years NAMM Convention in Anaheim Ca.

lol you poor bastard

NAMM is always a blast. Where else can you smoke a doob with the drummer from slaughter while watching a showcase from blues saraceno.

out of the cellar is seems like in many ways the classic of LA pop metal...it's really tuneful, RATT wrote *great* songs, and they just seemed to be the sort of nexus of everything, like they had a little more metal darkness than, say poison, a little of the scumminess of motley crue, but not as much...also sometimes there's a certain almost melancholy about that album, some of the melodies hit me as kind of not sad exactly, but mixed feelings, not just the fun party band....like the way the melody is for "true love'll find a way just give it time" in "round and round"

The "Round and Round" video, one of the worst ever made, was the work of none other than Don Letts.

-- Colin Meeder, Tuesday, April 16, 2002 12:00 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

who could hate the round and round video? colin u are a monster! milton berle! crazy dinner parties that go awry! RATT rockin' the house to it's foundations!!!

yah that video is classix.

Don't forget the chick slowly becoming more RAWK as she climbs towards the attic.

We need a Ratt vs. Dokken thread.

Y'know how the Rolling Stones covered Rufus Thomas' "Walkin' The Dog" on their debut album; and ten years later Aerosmith likewise recorded "Walkin' The Dog" on their own debut, and were deemed "2nd-rate Rolling Stones imitators"; and then ten years after that Ratt recorded "Walkin' The Dog" for their debut EP, and were called "the poor man's Aerosmith"?...and then 1993 rolls around, grunge has happened, and the tradition ends there. No way will D-Generation or Rancid or whoever find a pouty lead singer and record "Walkin' The Dog" for their debut album and risk being dismissed as "watered-down Ratt."

I am listening to both Ratt and Dokken, interestingly enough today, will get back to u

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btw I just found out fuckin DON LETTS directed the "Round and Round" video because he was in LA and the original director got sick....Ratt, Don Letts and Milton Berle is quite a combo

Let's all take a moment out of our crazy lives and all this political stuff going on in the world to salute rocker John Bon Jovi for his long-overdue induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame (Cleaveland, OH)! John has been rockin' into our lives for many years and I think we all owe him and his band a debt of gratitude. It truly is the little moments in life that matter, and BonJovi has provided us with so many of the best ones, from hits such as "Living with a Prayer" to the life-affirming classic "The Summer of 1969," and even during his more melancholly moments such as "Pink Houses," John has kept the good times a rockin and a rollin through the good times and bad! We salute you for a successful career, Bon Jovey, and we know you'rte going to enjoy your stay at the Hall for many years to come. After all, like the song goes, "we've got to hold on to what we've got, It doesn't make a difference if we make it or not"